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Attention Quotes - Page 23

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.13, Modern Library

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.116, Psychology Press

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

"Meryl Streep on "Marvin's Room"". Interview with Henri Béhar, www.filmscouts.com. December 22, 1996.

Flirtation: attention without intention.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 277), 1922.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

"Louis C.K. on eating pressure and providing an alternative to The Man". Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. July 5, 2012.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Jonathan Swift (1751). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing, I. His Miscellanies in prose. II. His poetical writings. III. The travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. IV. Papers relating to Ireland, and The Drapier's letters. V. The conduct of the allies, and The examiners. VI. The publick spirit of the Whiggs, &c. with Polite conversation. VII. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII. Directions to servants, sermons, poems, &c”, p.205

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

George Plimpton (1967). “Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews”